Re: Prefixing PHP packages with ${PHP_PKG_PREFIX}

[Filip Hajny <filip%joyent.com@localhost>]

> 31. 8. 2015 v 20:10, Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>:
> 
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 01:06:09PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> So:
>> 
>>  definitely add prefix to conta, drupal, typo
> 
> Add horde and horde application to this list.
> 
>> 
>>  maybe add prefix to roundcube
> 
> definitively

For things like roundcube and magento, i.e. software that doesn’t built against a particular version really and is generally happy to just use one, I’d love to see dependencies defined in the {php54,php55,php56}-dom-[0-9]* kind of pattern. We lack a binary package world alternative to PHP_VERSION_DEFAULT (or a dependency evaluation logic) for this to work though - one that would first look at an existing PHP base package, then consider a preferred version based on ENV, then fall back to the latest available, then go back to direct dependencies required and evaluate.

Do you feel this is something worth working on?

-F